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From: Peter Dambier (no email)
Date: Wed May 09 2007 - 03:18:30 EDT
Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:10:56PM -0700, matthew zeier wrote:
>
>>>>and
>>>>more to the point how the whole shebang (I'm using net-snmpd) is
>>>>typically used.
>>>
>>>Agent on device provides values, management app(s) collect data by polling
>>>(and possibly via traps), sysadmin gets to go home on time for once.
>>
>>I have yet to see this work in practice however.
>
>
> Yeah, I misread 'typically' as 'theoretically'. Practical experience is
> more like:
>
> Agent on device lies about it's values, management apps collect lies (and
> ignore/lose traps), and the sysadmin has yet more software to swear at.
> <grin>
>
> - Matt
>
Just for curiousities sake
IASON is reading logs most of the time. proc2pl is reading the /proc filesystem.
I did not find the time and equipment for testing so I used snmpwalk to write
a file and read it just like any normal file or /proc.
Processing the output of snmpwalk just got me the "normal" log file I was
interested in.
I tried writing back into snmp variables but I never got a HP Procurve switch
to do what I wanted. When they used different MIBs for different families of
their switches, I gave up.
Now I see linux boxes most of the time. They all use different MIBs for
different things. Reading /proc is much easier and there a fewer differences
between the machines.
The soho stuff I find mostly uses web interfaces sometimes a real linux with
a real log but almost never snmp.
Looks sad, but I am still interested as it could make things a lot easier.
Cheers
Peter and Karin
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